Are Smart Objects Making us Dumb?

How to live in a world where your trash bin can talk back.

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... I ... Brian sing the Europeans are of dubious J weekend Revue ... I'm here with it can do Mars on who has written or cover story this weekend ... and his new book out called to save everything click here ... so in your piece you're writing about the rise of work all the smart objects and smart technology ... could you could quickly define for us what ... what is a smart object what is what a smart tack I know it's kind of a slippery a topic so took turn be clear on the terms ... Shaw ... well I think they all the way to define smart I'd just go ... basically talk about all the jacks doubt knoll what they're doing ... it so it's ... too loose that don't additional was that that ... tend to get worn out with the war on balance that they know they're supposed to protect it from Maine so they can check the brother ... actually tell you about this about me and so it's basically ... all objects doubt the more alas no hype about their potential news this am because they are and that's that's been the DVD is another important feature ... of smart objects they can actually ... give you feedback it there while using the aam or DEPO instead of using that more often study does and damned AbbVie ie impact ... then you know you can build altars of other layers of bubble bath Thursday that it ... can be you interacting with steel friends who was given as social graph them and all sorts of body features ... you can build on top of the Star today but they do it to give you feedback ... and they do it on the stamp them in the ABC club all ... what is your doing with this all Jack I would say ... define something smart ... right now so this part of her that maybe we we choose to use like a smart refrigerator the right tell me about the nutritional content of the groceries are bought ... but then there's other projects where in assertive Silicom Bella designers he wanted to push our behavior conduct or behavior ... so you start out of the peace second Resnick although been cab so that's a great example I think of them are pushing technology and kind of explain without its stake in the UK aam is that you can actually hop attacks can doubt those that that the task and so it can actually ... understand what it is you are putting into a Budiu cycling actually of whether you know you're separating all judges for the do it properly is it ... that ... way does not stop it has a smartphone Delta's opera led to every time you shop ... don't let that ... I did actually take photo ... and the photos uploaded to a site called mechanical Turk ... if all the law to add this photo from the attachment ... and a well signing the aam you know you some kind of allowable based on our recycling family ... I you behave areas ... and affordable them Egypt is the isthe ph where new campaign to some kind of depression than other households ... and then you get points in the the the whole idea behind ... the smart touch them ... just out of ... the one to more abt different I don't want to appeal to your ... ox direst was your friends I do want you to ... I hear you are ... so if ... you cycling family behavior on his sleeve to be able to impress your friends that that ... could see their different kind of motivation is to be a different kind off to appeal ... to you what hours the user without them that they have in the past right where the idea was that while you have to be ... engaged in the second behaviors that to secure broad environmental because you ... do caraway about saving the plan at them and I have also the different motivations ... which become boss of all now that it can have new sorts off I peer pressure ... the old Into Ali was an introduction of a smart ... religious ... right and so you make a distinction the article that screens for the good smart and that smart with ... smart ... thing thing that gives you more information to make a decision that and that smart things when the really really tried to push to ... answer what are some other year worse and worse case scenarios of what that a smart tack looks ... like a lot of the BABs market technologists they will be long just giving you the information ... that he needs ... to use the objects and artifacts and aam you and I had to make it the movie is that the midst of a new web outsmarted ... if I forgive an example ... Mark ecologist so I'm ... the something old ... man patrol the car which is basically a smart to roll the current which is able to stand ... any products that you buy in for the employer and an additional Valuentum value ... with a calm salsa tonight to understand how much you know how far the starlets have traveled ... but you don't have to do its thing it's just an additional layer of information ... that you can use in order to make a batter decision more ethical decision to well ... was that smart of the ... manipulation happens here differently and that goes much further in doubt ... he noted that the Vatican for making such choices ... and they're all from one of the smart the dollar just bad I would define as bad received a call that's where ... they'll be some discs and are some big ... ol' officials they sold on the diving for example I think would be ... one example where is to open new leadership nation of ours ... you have in your new features in devices and gadgets built without might be alive there is an ideal surface that there's fish can aam ... study your palms and feet around that you are being tired so ... they would see it that the Vatican for starting the car ... write the war the world to make shore the other cars stopped at this moment the thing about the impacts ... them probably justified because the walls for soft ... feel of the term things need to consider airing of the kindest people you might get that you're beyond the underwriting of dental bills are ... big factors but ... does it very interesting ... please hear me plan ... what Silicon Valley wants to do and what some of our policy makers might want to do with it and are so smart violence and I think that ... you know did is the temptation ... a lot of the ... awful fall policymakers but also have Silicon Valley to go for ... that are more often ... because the more efficient than bookmarklets margin gives you more information but that still up to you what to do ... that's why the shore is a guaranteed outcome very efficient way ... I've got solve the human agent from going to ... re Shen and this is what bothers me a little that ... I'm that that God is distinction that we can get all the officials who want ... I was the help of some smart to college as ... but the meeting called tax efficiency is perhaps more with you after Credit well fastening stuff again and again I'm here with me anymore as operas written this week's ... preview cover story the book is ... to save everything click here ... yet um Brian Singer a dubious J weekend ... thanks for joining us ...